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Lab for Planning and Architecture (LPA) Building the warm side of sustainable life
Scopes of work INDEX Urban Development Urban Planning PRESENTATION Urban Design VISION & PRINCIPLES Landscape Architecture FIELDS OFInfrastructures WORK Mobility Product Design FIRM STRUCTURE
DIVISIONS & SERVICES DIRECTORS Sectors
SECTORS & PRODUCTS Leisure & Hospitality RESEARCH Mobility & Accessibility TEAM Waterfronts & Maritime Commercial & Entertainment OFFICE Government & Public Sector CAREERS Mixed Use & Districs COMMITMENT TO QUALITY PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS
Key personae
CLIENTS Juan Palop-Casado •PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS • Founding Partner • Principal LPA Fernando Portillo de Armenteras • Associate • Design & Construcction Director Cristina Suarez Lacalle • Founding Partner • Managing Director
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Lab for Planning and Architecture (LPA) is a leading planning and design firm, focusing on the sustainable and organic development of southern INTRODUCTION regions and territories—the socalled subtropics that feature semi-arid About us and Mediterranean environmental regimes. LPA has a deep commitment Lab for Planning and Architecture (LPA) is an international practice operating to the specific (economic, social and environmental) potentialities of the in a multi-scale way in the field of bioclimatic design and urbanism, optimizing subtropics, which are deployed in line with the principles and protocols of the philosophy principles ofofecological and sustainable development to the singularities the eco-design thinking. of regions with warm and hot climates. The production of innovative solutions (Lab), the design of visions & processes (Planning) and the construction places The firm is structured into three divisions that enables the integration of and spaces (Architecture) define the singular approach to urban design and strategic, design and execution phases of the urban development proplanning of LPA. cess. With the understanding of urban environments as a complex symLPA was founded in 2002, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands), a city biosis of (ecological, political, infrastructural, psychological…) systems, LPA known by having the best weather in the world, and a privilege laboratory for provides services in the fields of strategic development, master planning, testing the environmental and spatial potential of the geographies with “good urban design, infrastructures and landscape architecture. weather”, and its connection with the advance practice of urbanism. LPA has offices in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Madrid. LPA has accumulated extensive experience in the practice of subtropiThe operative system of LPA is framed in the intersection of two ongoing revocal urbanism and its subsequent urban and landscape configurations: lutions: the emergence of an ecological era and the new possibilities offered waterfronts, tourist destinations, eco-resorts, spaces, by Information Technologies (IT). With the socialpublic dynamics andrecreational environmental spaces, outdoor commercial areas, friendly pedestrian precincts, mobility singularities of the places with good weather—as raw material— and the poinfrastructure ... The firm has received accolades in various diverse natiotential of digital tools—as a processing tool—, LPA has developed its own worknal international ing and methodology andcompetitions. has applied it in high sensitive environmental sectors such Leisure & Hospitality and Waterfronts & Maritime. The work of the office has beenoffices awarded in national international competitions. With in the Canaryand Islands and Madrid, LPA is engaged in projects in the two subtropical strips that run around the globe, where regular collaborations with local partners and consultants are established. LPA has a sister non-profit organization called Twenty Degrees Institute (20ºi). This new concept is devoted to research and speculative thinking on the sustainable urban development of the subtropical south.
Divisions LPA Strategy Planning + Development LPA Design Urban + Landscape LPA Construction Management + Supervision
Urban Development
Lab for Planning and Architecture
Quality standards Management / ISO 9001
Environment / ISO 14001
Sustainability / BREEAM_ES
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Urban & Landscape Design
LPA Construction Execution Documentation Construction Management Site Supervision BIM Modelling Digital Fabrication Sustainable Construction
Infrastructure Design
LPA Design Land-use Plan Master Planning Infrastructure Design Landscape Design Building Design Urban Furniture
Product Design
LPA Strategy Vision & Briefing Site Auditing Feasibility Studies Project Management Strategic Planning Sustainability Assessments
Master Planning
Services